Bug 260730 – ksmserver-4.2.0 creates zombie processes

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description rk 2009-03-01 15:07:23 UTC]

I have qt-4.5.0_rc1 installed and kde 4.2. It seems like the ksmserver creates zombie processes. In principle I would not care about zombie processes but as soon as there are any I cannot log out anymore. Removing the ksmserverrc and everything from Autostart allows me to login/logout one time. The command "ps -U <username> --forest" gives the following output:
 6032 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit4
 6033 ?        00:00:00  \_ klauncher
 6044 ?        00:00:00  \_ ksmserver
 6046 ?        00:00:01  |   \_ kwin
 6065 ?        00:00:00  |   \_ nepomukserver <defunct>
 6070 ?        00:00:00  |   \_ kmix <defunct>
 6072 ?        00:00:00  |   \_ amarok <defunct>
 6074 ?        00:00:00  |   \_ kopete <defunct>
 6076 ?        00:00:02  |   \_ skype
 6095 ?        00:00:00  |   \_ kget <defunct>
 6098 ?        00:00:00  |   \_ kwalletmanager <defunct>
 6100 ?        00:00:00  |   \_ konsole <defunct>
 6107 ?        00:00:00  |   \_ easystroke <defunct>
 6109 ?        00:00:00  |   \_ nvidia-settings <defunct>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I tried reinstalled qt, ksmserver and kdelibs but the problem is always the same.

[Comment 1 rk 2009-03-01 15:30:06 UTC]

I could fix the problem myself by downgrading to a previous nvidia-driver. I don't know how this correlates but it works again.

[Comment 2 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2009-03-01 20:29:51 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 260441 ***